Right at the top of the hierarchy is, of course, Professor Sechenov himself. The machines may be the most immediate source of danger, but P-3 will need to navigate the politics and philosophies of Facility 3826’s upper management if he’s to find the hidden truth behind the disaster. But the developer promises that the deeper into the complexes you explore, the more sinister things become. Mundfish notes that there’s an air of a utopian future, particularly in the more open locations and the entrance to Facility 3826. On your journey you’ll also come across various monuments and memorials, paying testament in grand fashion to past breakthroughs and lost geniuses. Mundfish also promises variety in areas depending on their purpose the Theater complex, built for use by not just scientists but local civilians, provides a very different area to explore than the robotic engineering labs that lie underground. The Chelomey complex, for instance, is made up of futuristic architecture that reflects the needs of its research team, and stands in stark contrast to the small rural villages that surround the Facility. While Atomic Heart takes place in just this single location, its multiple districts are visually distinct and designed to tell the Facility’s many stories. If you’ve seen any gameplay from Atomic Heart, you’ll know that playing as P-3 looks like an absolute violent riot.Īgent P-3’s quest will see him exploring the many different complexes that make up Facility 3826. Thankfully his body is augmented with a serious amount of tech a metal skeleton makes him almost as hardy as his droid opponents, and a variety of Polymer combat implants enhance his deadly skills. It’s P-3’s job to contain the disaster and prevent it from spreading further. Right now the disaster is confined to the halls and laboratories of Facility 3826, which itself is located in the Kazakhstan mountains, far from regular society. Nechaev, better known as P-3, is Professor Sechenov’s personal agent, and has been called upon to find and eliminate the cause of the system failure. It’s following this disaster that Atomic Heart’s protagonist enters the story: veteran soldier Major Sergey Nechaev. But a catastrophic system failure in the Kollektiv network - the very network Sechenov wanted humans to plug into - caused all connected robots to turn against their creators. People could become quantum physicists overnight. They could connect with machines and instantly learn new languages and instruments. The dream was that THOUGHT would advance humanity in leaps and bounds. This system, which would eventually be known as THOUGHT, would prove to be Sechenov’s greatest mistake. Just two years later, he began to design a 2.0 version of the system that would link a human mind with a robot’s operating system via a Polymer implant. In 1948, Sechenov created the Kollektiv Neural Network, a system that allowed human operators to command robots with improved efficiency. By the mid-1940s automatons were commonplace, and performed vital duties in rebuilding the country after the devastation of the Second World War. His storage device paved the way for the creation of portable cold fusion reactors, which in turn unlocked the rise of robot assistants. As such, the laboratories of Facility 3826 studied all manner of disciplines, from interstellar engineering to medicine, genetics, and even botany.īut Sechenov’s true talent was in robotics. These alt-history Russians were set on conquering other planets. As you’d expect of the Soviets in the 1950s, Professor Sechenov and the scientists of Facility 3826 had their eyes very much on the stars, but they were involved in something much grander than the Space Race. In Mundfish’s twisted past, the invention of a miracle substance known as Polymer allows the Soviet Union to chart a significantly more technologically advanced path through the first half of the twentieth century. And, for this month’s IGN First, the game’s creative team has revealed the timeline of events that directly lead to the robot-smashing action of this intense first-person shooter. Robotic Revolutionĭeveloper Mundfish has crafted an entire alternate history for Atomic Heart. Blood covers the floors and walls of Facility 3826. Robots have turned against their creators. Thought control over machines is just years away. His laboratory, known as Facility 3826, is hard at work on a device that will link humans and robots. Sechenov’s inventions have ushered in an age of technological prosperity for the Soviet Union.
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